Pushing the boundaries of online transformative learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pushing the boundaries of online transformative learning

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

CONTEXT. Through our work in a soon-to-be-completed project, ‘Transformative Learning’, we have become aware not only of the key importance of Transformative Learning in a time of rapid and far-reaching change, but also of the steep increase in demand for online learning opportunities. This trend has accelerated sharply in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Online delivery is particularly challenging in a transformative context because so much hinges on personal qualities that have traditionally been conveyed face-to-face.
The transformative quality of adult education will in several ways shape the future of Europe. To the existing critical challenges of climate change, sustainable development, increasing migration, precarity of employment and of food regimes, has been added the abrupt need to face the COVID-19 pandemic and, not least, to discover ways to build a more resilient society in its aftermath. In order to survive and thrive, Europe will need to engage broad swathes of the population in the search for viable transnational transformative solutions. Increasingly, this engagement is understood to encompass online learning opportunities.
We have assembled a PARTNER GROUP with broad networks and with unusually long experience in both transformative learning and in online delivery of adult education programs, including the Higher Education sector. We will collate experience with different forms of online delivery in order to explore and conduct brief experiments with different approaches and methods. To this end we will
* Bring together/consolidate the work of the partners, and seek out others with similar interests
* Explore the opportunities and limitations for TL online, also engaging non-partner networks where appropriate
* Publish and publicise our findings – IOs – consisting of a) Guidelines for program design, b) Support for effective delivery of programs
We plan that at least three educators from each partner organization will be actively engaged. Further, each partner will inform and invite its members, member organizations, client base and trainees to participate in one or more of three roles: As a source of input to the IOs, As participant in one or more experiments proposed by the project, As recipient, user and potential disseminator of the results/IOs. In this way we anticipate that at least 100 educators will benefit from the work during the project period.
This is an exploratory project which will result in practical materials reflecting current state of the art concerning both design and delivery of online transformative learning events.
THE METHODS used are:
1. Desk research to collect and collate current best practice.
2. Design and implementation of small experiments to be incorporated into already-planned programs, to assess the potential of specific methods and approaches to enhance the impact of the programs concerned.
3. Collaborative synthesis of the outcomes of the research and experimentation into two IOs, one concerned with program design and the other with program delivery.
Direct LONG-TERM BENEFITS will accrue to the partners through improved knowledge, competence and skills to design and deliver online programs for transformative learning. Less directly, we expect benefits to other networks and organizations engaged in adult education in the form of better methods and skills; and an emerging catalogue of questions for either academic or action research, which the partners are well placed to make good use of.

Project Website

https://legacy17.org/ontl/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56964 Eur

Project Coordinator

Legacy17 & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Isoropia d.o.o. za savjetovanje
• Visionautik e.V.
• COPERNICUS Alliance e.V.